Word: whittington
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...Strategists for Cheney concluded that the interview was a way of "turning the corner," according to a Republican official involved in the discussions. "As long as Mr. Whittington recovers, it's fine," the official said. "It cost the Administration a week. It has weakened the Vice President, but not for the long term...
...Cheney stayed out of public sight for three days after the Saturday evening shooting of 78-year-old lawyer Harry Whittington, with news photographers catching surveillance-style shots of the Vice President hustling into the side door of the West Wing. Finally, under pressure from Bush aides and much of Washington's Republican establishment, Cheney decided to sit down Wednesday afternoon with an interviewer whom the VP appears to trust, Brit Hume of Fox News...
...Among the new facts the Vice President disclosed in the interview:? Whittington, dressed in orange, was "down a little ways" in a gully. "The sun was directly behind him - that affected the vision, too, I'm sure," Cheney said.? Cheney went up to Whittington and said, "Harry, I had no idea you [were] there," but his friend "didn't respond" at first, possibly because he was stunned.? Whittington was wearing hunting glasses that protected his eyes. He arrived at a nearby emergency room within less than an hour after leaving the ranch, then was taken by helicopter to Corpus Christi...
...showing public emotion. "The image of him falling is something I'll never be able to get out of my mind," Cheney said. "I fired, and there's Harry falling. And it was, I'd have to say, one of the worst days of my life, at that moment." Whittington was about 30 yards away, Cheney estimated. "We went over to him, obviously, right away," he added...
...Doctors at the Corpus Christi hospital will be watching to make sure Mr. Whittington does not develop ventricular fibrillation, a more serious type of irregular heartbeat that can be fatal within minutes. "It will stay a minor problem as long as the arrhythmia stays under control, the heart muscle hasn't suffered permanent damage, he doesn't have a further ongoing heart attack, and there's no fluid building up around the heart," says Dr. Soumi Eachempati, a trauma surgeon at New York Hospital in New York City. Assuming nothing else goes wrong, however, Whittington should be able...